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Archive for September, 2010

Chris Beckett. Our Land. (Conflicts).

A slightly more thoughtful story than a couple of the predecessors in the volume, as befitting a social work academic.

Is Anybody Out There? (ed Nick Gevers and Marty Halpern. Daw, 2010).

DAW Books anthology themed around the Fermi Paradox. There are some good stories in here – Irvine, Lake, Langford and Vukcevich are my picks – but no real standouts.

James Morrow. The Vampires of Paradox. (Is Anybody Out There?)

Amusing tale in which Morrow closes out the Fermi Paradox volume by addressing the issue of paradox head-on.

Felicity Shoulders and Lesley What. Rare Earth. (Is Anybody Out There?)

Grandma holds the keys, or the rare minerals, which point to the reason for the (re)appearance of the aliens.

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2010

Libling, Schulz and Irvine the pick of the issue for me.

Ian Watson. A Waterfall of Lights. (Is Anybody Out There?)

A scientific researcher at Oxford University realises that the aliens are already amongst, but we haven’t been able to see it..

Steven Popkes. The Crocodiles. (F&SF May/June 2010)

A story about which I’m quite ambivalent. It’s told by a German scientist in the Second World War who has been transferred to a concentration camp to assist in research on creating ‘tote Manner’ – zombies. A virus has been found that causes death, followed by reanimation with a desire to kill. Surely such a [...]

Lokiko Hall. The Gypsy’s Boy. (F&SF May/June 2010)

A blind young, bereft by the death of the elderly gypsy woman to bought him and raised him as her own, finds solace in the arms of a wind spirit.

Robert Onopa. The Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe. (F&SF May/June 2010)

A very sophisticated organic AI controlled train set is a perfect Xmas present for a young boy….

Rachel Pollack. Forever. (F&SF May/June 2010)

The Blessed Lady of Dark Forever tires of her job ferrying the dead…

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